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Cant Z.501 by RGL - 1/72 Suspended


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I haven’t built a plastic aircraft since about 1980, which matches when this kit was a re-box of a 1972 mold. 

 

 

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It’s not that easy to find at a reasonable price (it cost about $30 with postage) plus a bit of PE as I can’t help myself as usual. 5BAFF98A-AF86-4E69-8AE1-BD043669F94C.thumb.jpeg.5a2656fdc37ac019bc921bd1c99183cb.jpeg

its going to be nice to build something a bit bigger than usual scale and compared to HMAS Vendetta a bit less fat fingers I hope. 0E267F68-D440-43F4-A126-B3CE17F6BA45.thumb.jpeg.01def3c1a6714791abedbc062c586feb.jpeg

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Pretty nifty looking flying boat.  And PE, too. This will be a beauty.

Ken

Started: MS Bounty Longboat,

On Hold:  Heinkel USS Choctaw paper

Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1

Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section

 

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wicked nice start :)    quite a bit looks to be packed into her..........no doubt you can do it  ;) 

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finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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I know how it feels.......I have the Lindberg "legends of the sky" kit of a P-47B thunderbolt vs  an HE-111 German Bomber, 1:72 scale...I got it from a yard sale.  I started it and found that the Thunderbolt is missing the

canopy.  god knows where I'm gonna find one for it :blink:   I hope you have good luck.

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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  • 2 years later...

Hey, Greg. I just came across this thread. I had this kit back in the day, sans PE upgrades. Never got around to building it. I just saw a video about this aircraft a few weeks ago. The narrator mentioned that this aircraft had an unfortunate tendency to fling its cockpit crew forward into the spinning prop upon hard landings -- not a trait that endeared it much to its crews.

Chris Coyle
Greer, South Carolina

When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
- Tuco

Current builds: Brigantine Phoenix, Bf 109E-7/trop

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On 8/9/2022 at 9:45 PM, ccoyle said:

this aircraft had an unfortunate tendency to fling its cockpit crew forward into the spinning prop upon hard landings -- not a trait that endeared it much to its crews.

I believe this would be classified under 'non-habit forming activity'.

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STAY SAFE

 

A model shipwright and an amateur historian are heads & tails of the same coin

current builds:

HMS Berwick 1775, 1/192 scratchbuild; a Slade 74 in the Navy Board style

Mediator sloop, 1/48 - an 18th century transport scratchbuild 

French longboat - CAF - 1/48, on hold

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gives new meaning to 'strap in'!  .....more permanent than the old fashioned 'jet lag'  do you still have the kit Chris?

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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